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Frederick Douglass Quote - We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Frederick Douglass

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Praying for freedom never did me any good til I started praying with my feet.
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We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.
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A woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and endowments.
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The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it’s privileges by the law of the land.
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A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.
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Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
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A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.
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Opportunity is important but exertion is indispensable.
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The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.
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Our destiny is largely in our hands.
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Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.
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Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. The resistance encountered now predicates hope.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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